Sifter.



WITNESSES:

PATENTED PEB. 27, 1906.

A.- 0. ATKINSON.

SIFTER. APPLIGATIONHLBD JAN.23.1905.

invention as applied for use.

UNITED sTATEs PATENT oEEIoE,

ADRIENNA OTIE ATKINSONfOE LOUISVILLE, KENTUCKY, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO GRACE JURT, OF ALEXANDRIA, INDIANA.

SIFTER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Feb. 27, 1906.

To all whom/ it Wtfty concern:

Be it known that I, ADRIENNA OTIE AT- KINSON, residing at Louisville, in the county of Jefferson and State of Kentucky, have invented a new and Improved Sifter, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to certain new and useful improvements in sifters, and more particularly seeks to provide a sifter for household use for sifting flour and meal, &c.,which is of a simple construction, which can be easily and cheaply manufactured, and which will readily serve its intended purposes.

Generically, my invention comprises a receptacle having a handle and provided with a screen-bottom forming the sieve proper. Below the screen-bottom the receptacle is extended to form a rim and is provided with a transverse rod beneath the screen-bottom upon which is slidably mounted a resilient agitator or vibrator for impacting the sides of the rim to ar the receptacle, and thereby shake the contents of the receptacle through the screen.

Again, my invention seeks to provide an agitator for sieves of this character which is constructed of springy material to aid in moving the same from side to side as it impacts the rim of the receptacle.

With other objects in view than have heretofore been enumerated the invention also comprises certain novel construction and combination of parts, all of which will be first described in detail and the'nspecifically pointed out in the appended claim, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure l is a perspective view showing my Fig. 2 is a top plan view thereof. Fig. 3 is an inverted plan view thereof. Fig. 4 is a cross-section of the line 4 4 of Fig. 2.

Referring now to the accompanying drawings, inwhich like numerals of reference indicate like parts in all of the figures, l designates the receptacle, to which a handle 2 is fixedly attached in any approved manner. The receptacle 1 is provided witha bottom of screen wire 3, which maybe secured to the receptacle in any approved manner, such as soldering the same to a flange la of the bottom l. The bottom 3 serves to screen or sift the material as. it passes out of the receptacle and through the bottom thereof.

1b designates an annular rim extending from the bottom of the receptacle 1 and about one inch below the bottom of the sieve 3. About midway the length of the rim 1b and along a diameter-line I secure a crosswire 4, upon which is loosely and slidably mounted an agitator 5. The agitator 5 preferably consists of a stout coil-spring, to the ends 5a of which the head-pieces 5b are soldered or otherwise secured, and these headpieces 5b are apertured, as at 5", to permit the passage of the cross-wire A.

I am aware that sifters have heretofore been provided in which means are included above the screen-wire for agitating the material within the receptacle by direct contact therewith, and in devices of such character the chief objections to them lie in the fact that such agitators have a tendency to grind or rub the foreign matter in the material to be sifted through the wire sieve or bottom of the sifter. This objectionable feature is avoided in my invention, and so far as described the operation of my invention will be readily understood as follows: The operator fills the receptacle with flour or meal to about half its capacity and then shakes the same from left to right briskly. This will cause the vibrator 5 on the wire rod 4 to move from side to side, striking the wall of the rim of the sifter, thereby jarring the sifter and causing the flour or meal to pass through the screenbottom thereof, the screen-bottom holding the foreign matter from passing therethrough and after the liiour has passed through the sifter the foreign matter may be dumped out in the usual manner.

By constructing the vibrator of a coil- IOO understood that slight changes in the detail, construction, operation, and arrangement of parts may be made Without departing from the scope of the invention or the appended claim.

Having thus described my invention, What I claim7 and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is`

A sifter comprising the combination with a receptacle, a screen forming the bottom therefor, said receptacle including a projecting rim at the bottom below the screen7 a rod secured to said rim and passing diametrically across the receptacle, a resilient impacting member endwise movable on said rod for impacting said rim to shake or agitate the receptacle, said impacting member consisting of a coil-spring, apertured heads secured to the end oi said coil-spring', Asaid rod adapted to pass through the apertures of the heads, all being arranged substantially as shown and described.

ADRIENNA OTIE ATKINSON.

Witnesses:

H. C. ATKINSON, OMA MEIERs. 

